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Cassell's dictionary of cookery

1892

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Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
cloves, a quarter of an ounce of cinnamon, the thin peel of half a lemon, two slices of lemon, four ounces of sifted sugar, and one ' pint of water ; boil for a quarter of an hour in an enamelled saucepan, add a little grated nutmeg or powdered ginger, two bottles of claret, one small glass of brandy or curatjoWine, Mulled, Clareta ; when nearly boiling, strain. Wine, Orange. — "Seville oranges are used for this purpose ; they are best in March. F®r eighteen gallons of wine half a chest of oranges are required. Pare the rinds from about a dozen or two dozen, as more or less of the bitter will be agreeable. Pour over this a quart or two of boiling water, and after letting this stand for twelve hours, strain off the water which extracted much of the essential oil of the oranges. Take the peel off entirely from the remainder of the oranges, squeeze the juice through a bag or sieve, and put it into a cask with about forty-five poimds of white sugarWine, Orange, or fifty-five of the best moist sugar. Soak the pulp in water for twenty-four hours, and after straining this add it to the cask, liepeat this several times till the cask is full. Stir the whole weU with a stick tiU the sugar is dis- solved, then set it to ferment. The fermen- tation is slower than wifh currant wine, but may be heard hissing for some weeks. \\'Tien this subsides, close the bung-hole and proceed as in the case of gooseberry wine. Some add brandy. This wine requires to be kept in the cask a year before it is bottled." Wine, Peaetl (a Canadian recipe). — Take the stones out of forty-five pounds of ripe peaches, slice the fruit into a clean vessel, and strew over and amongst them ten poimds of loaf sugar broken small : let them lie covered up until the next day. Boil ten gallons of soft water, with sixteen pounds of loaf sugar and the whites of ten eggs beaten fine, half an hour, skimming it until clear ; then put to it the fruit and sugar out of the vessel, and boil them to a pulp, taking off the scum as it rises. Put the whole into a tub upon the shells and kernels of the peaches previously broken, stir it well, and when properly cooled stir well amongst it nearly half a pint of good yeast, and leave it to fei-ment. Stir it well two days at proper inter- vals, then strain the liquor through a fine sieve, and put it in your cask to work over, being kept always full. Add the thin rinds of six Seville oranges, and half a pint of orange and lemon juice mixed, and when the fermentation has ceased, put in two quarts of brandy, and stop it up for two months. Then rack it off, into a clean vessel, filter the lees, and fill the cask again, adding an oimco of dissolved isin- glass and six ounces of sugar-candy. Stop it up securely, and keep it twelve months; then bottle it, seal the corks, and let it be six months longer before you drink it. It is a delicious wine, and may be made at a trifling expense. Wine Punch. — Take two lemons, and rasp the yellow rind off with half a pound of loaf sugar. Put this with the juice of the lemons into a bowl ; then make scalding hot two bottles of good Ehine wine, adding to it a pint of strong green tea. Pour this over the sugar, and add from half a pint to a pint of arrack or fine rumWine Punch.